Quotes by virtue

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Lyman Abbott
American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. 1835-1922

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher 384 BC - 322 BC

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French writer and philosopher 1712-1778

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
George Orwell
English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950

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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Albert Camus
French writer and essayist 1913-1960

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
French essayist and philosopher 1533-1592

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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
Edwin Louis Cole

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Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Source: Real Man (1993)
François Fénelon
French Writer 1651-1715

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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher and Theologian 1632-1677

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Source: Tractatus Politicus
Charles Caleb Colton
English writer 1780-1832

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Joseph Addison
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719

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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
German Statesman, Philologist 1767-1835

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Cato the Elder
Roman senator and historian 234-149 BC

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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Buddha
Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama ca. 450 BC - ca. 370 BC

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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.